Have Bible, Will Travel
Pastor Louis Telcy has begun meeting with outside prayer and Bible study groups throughout the community. Groups are now forming and meeting every week at both The Crossings Assisted Living and Memory Care facility and at the Kingswood manufactured home park. Contact the church office if you would like more information about these two weekly meetings, or if you would like Pastor Louis to help you form a similar group in your neighborhood.
RESTORE Reports God’s Blessings
The RESTORE volunteers would like to thank everyone for their support throughout 2019. RESTORE, our food bank and thrift store, is staffed with volunteers who distribute food and clothing to local families and periodically hold yard sales to self-fund their operation.
Their monthly thrift store sales averages $186 per month during 2019. Their quarterly yard sales raise the majority of RESTORE income, turning donations from our friends and neighbors into cash to buy food and supplies to give away.
RESTORE had a great Thanksgiving for our clients and spent more than $4,000 for turkey and Thanksgiving trimmings. Although this giveaway depleted their funds, God is good. They were blessed with a $1,000 donation from Rice Creek Chapel Service.
Beginning in 2020, RESTORE will partner with South Shore United Methodist Church. South Shore UMC will be collecting non-perishable food and will bringing it in by the carload. Our neighboring food bank, ECHO, has also been bringing us perishable food from Sprouts every week. Volunteers also collect surplus food from Winn-Dixie, Save-a-Lot, Publix, and even Pizza Hut. All of these resources supplement our Feed America food truck that delivers surplus USDA food on Thursdays.
Yes, there’s a lot going on at RESTORE. The RESTORE team looks forward to 2020 serving the needy in our community.
Churchwide Applebee’s Flapjack Fundraiser
Our next church Flapjack Fundraiser will be held on Valentine’s Day Saturday, February 15th. It will be held at the Applebee’s Restaurant at 829 Providence Road from 8 AM until 10 AM. Fundraiser tickets are available for $7 each. Tickets are available from select members including Jack Findlay, John Nelson and Pastor Louis.
Metropolitan Ministries Partnership Challenge
Can you help? Our crew serve a hot lunch on Tuesdays provided to us by Metropolitan Ministries. Our hot lunch comes during the RESTORE Tuesday food pantry operation, and we serve lunch from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. On a recent Tuesday morning, we served lunches to 46 hungry people; we usually have at least 25 lunch clients, and we have had as many as 60.
We are looking for volunteers who can give us two hours on a Tuesday morning, from 10 AM until noon, once a month (or occasionally if called). Three volunteers each week is an ideal, but we can serve with only two volunteers. To sign up, write your name on the MetroMin calendar on the wall in the kitchen, or email Connie Mosley.(mosleycs@gmail.com)
We also need an occasional driver who can pick up the Metropolitan Ministry food from their Tampa campus on North Florida Avenue. Currently, Connie and Pastor Louis are the drivers, but they would like to have a third driver to call in an emergency.
Metropolitan Ministries meals actually cost about $2 apiece. Although we are not obligated to send money to them, we do make contributions when we can. You can participate financially by sending contributions to Metropolitan Ministries in your regular tithing envelope. Or, if you are already a regular mail contributor to Metropolitan Ministries, be sure to send it your contributions in the name of Riverview First United Methodist Church.
Sunday Services
Early Worship Service,
8:00 AM
Sunday School, 9:00 AM
Relationships/Refreshments, 10:00 AM-10:25 AM
Worship Service, 10:30 AM
Hispanic Worship Service
12:00 Noon
Rev. Louis Telcy, Pastor
Norma Encarnacion, Lay Pastor, Hispanic Congregationn
Here at Riverview First United Methodist Church, it is our mission to win people to Christ, to train believers to become disciples, and to send disciples to impact our community and the world for Jesus Christ.
8002 U. S. Highway 301 South, Riverview, FL 33578 813-677-5995
Download the Prayer Tree for January 19, 2020 from this link.
Download the January, 2020
Bell Newsletter from this link.
Online Giving at RUMC
Giving online is easy and allows you to set up automatic recurring contributions and view your complete online giving history from anywhere you have access to the Internet. Or you can enter one-time contributions from the internet or by smart phone.
To get started, simply follow these easy steps:
- Click on the Online Giving button below. This will take you to our church’s online giving webpage.
- Click on our Create Profile button on that webpage.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to create an online profile and to schedule your recurring or one-time contributions.
Bible Passage of the Week
Our Patient Lord
Don’t let it escape your notice, dear friends, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day. The Lord isn’t slow to keep his promise, as some think of slowness, but he is patient toward you, not wanting anyone to perish but all to change their hearts and lives. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a dreadful noise, the elements will be consumed by fire, and the earth and all the works done on it will be exposed.
2 Peter 3:8-10 (CEB)
Upcoming Events
Monday, January 20
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebrated. Church Office Closed.
Brain Storming Session. Library, 7:00 PM
Sunday, January 26
Worship Committee Meeting. Library, 6:00 PM
Tuesday, February 4
Trustees Meeting. Library, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, February 11
Finance Committee Meeting. Library, 7:00 PM
Saturday, February 15
Applebee’s Flapjack Fundraiser. Applebee’s Restaurant, 829 Providence Road, Brandon, FL 33511
